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rnb conftant and ftable period , as' reafon fcemed to per- 
fwade us they had. Mean time it fell out in repeating thefe 
Experiments, that having once unawares let the water of 
the Globe freeze near to the neck , the Globe burft 
Whereupon another being taken of a lefs Cue ^ to the end 
that the Cold might more fpeedily and more eafily get into 
all the water, and the neck of it being two hraccias long 
that it might not run out 5 it was filled with water out to 
the 1 60th degree, and then put into the Ice. Here obferv- 
ing it with the beft attention we could^wefound/r/Z, that 
all the accidents offubfiding, rifing, refting, ftarting up- 
wards, running, retarding, did alwayes follow in the fame 
points of the neck of the Globe, that is^ when the furface 
of the water ftood at the fame degrees 5 provided, that in 
the ad of fetting it in the Ice, care 'were taken, to put it 
to the very fame degree, where it was, when put into the 
Ice the time before, that is to fay, to the fame temper of 
heat and cold In which cafe the whole veflTel might be 
confiderd as a very nice Thermometer, by reafon of the 
great capacity of the Globe, and the exceeding ftreight- 
nefs of the Neck. This being provided for, we began to 
take notice of the precife time of Congelation 5 which to 
find aright, we did after every little fpace of time take up 
the Globe out of the Ice 5 but how frequently foever vvc 
madefuch obfervations, we never could fo hit it, as to fee 
even the leaft veine of froft , but alwayes it was either all 
fluid, or all frozen. Whence we conjeftured , that the 
work of Congelation was done in a very fhort time , and that 
he,who fliould with taking pains have the luck to take the 
Globe out of the Ice in that nick of time, when the water 
fhould receive that fo fudden change, would certainly find 
fome thing very notable thereby. And becaufe by the (b 
often taking out and putting the Globe into the Ice , the 
whole period of its changes was difordered 5 we let it re- 
turn to juft the lame mark as it was at firfl , and then 
placing it into the Ice, we fixed it to that degree, in which 
